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>there are things Americans perceive as having been that way forever that did not exist at the beginning of the 20th century. For example, 8 and 10 year old ki
by pretoriusB 14y ago
>there are things Americans perceive as having been that way forever that did not exist at the beginning of the 20th century.
For example, 8 and 10 year old kids used to play free in the streets and come back at home late at night, even in urban areas.
Or, there weren't movies aimed at teenagers and kids (and never-grown-up geeks) like now, until the eighties. All movies were made for everybody.
Two tidbits of freedom-past I learned from a very good article:
http://www.austinchronicle.com/columns/2003-08-22/174046/ http://www.austinchronicle.com/columns/2003-08-22/174046/
- stephengillie 14y agoMy mother told me about getting the first TV in their neighborhood in the 1950s -- people were standing on their porch, staring in, trying to figure out what the hell the bright loud box was. Before that, they got their news from the movies and papers. Some newsreels went on until the 1970s, as seen in MASH. She also told me about the government buying her best friend's house (and everyone else's house around there) to demolish them and put I-5 through the city. Before then, the only way from city to city were highways like Route 66, which wound through cities like residential streets. I'm not sure how our present libertarian population would feel about governments applying eminent domain over thousands of miles of perfectly good farmland and housing.